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Kelly Huey’s service to the social work profession has taken her from bedsides to boardrooms.

Social workers are often known to serve the economically disadvantaged, and many of them can be found visiting low-income neighborhoods, giving families tools to cope, to survive and even thrive.

Throughout a more than 30-year career, Huey, who received the 2020 Director’s Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession from ASU’s School of Social Work (SSW) in March, has demonstrated the impact social workers also can have in hospitals and hospice care.

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Karla Chicuate was intellectually acquainted with the morally evil practice of grooming, abducting and selling human beings for labor or sexual exploitation when she traveled in January to west Africa.

After all, she had been working as an educator with the city of Tempe’s Sexual Relationship and Violence Department for about a year and a half when her 10-day excursion began, and she intentionally chose the assignment to work with women and children who had endured human trafficking.

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